Quote :

"Maybe 2017 will be the year my coworkers learn that you can convert photos and documents into PDF's directly without needing to print and scan them"

For me it's when they know I need documents physically, but instead of emailing me the original document and adding notes in the email, they will print the document and bring it to me with notes so I have to rescan it.

Also, I'm trying to find a gentle way to tell the HR chick that she can rotate pages in Adobe so I don't get sideways pages every month.

12/31/2016 2:36:00 PM

She's an HR chick, you should be glad she isn't hand writing it (with bubble letters and/or hearts instead of dots on her i) and bringing it to you.

12/31/2016 3:30:33 PM

Quote :

"I get skype messages from all across the country because my name is the first one with "manager" in the title alphabetically for our building. At least 3 times a week I get a, "hi kurtis this is xxxxx from xxxx can you help me with (some item completely unrelated to your department)""

"No, I cannot help you. Goodbye."

I'm looking forward to all of the shit offshore has thrown into our product over the last two weeks while all the US employees have been on vacation...

1/1/2017 6:05:54 PM

Yeah, it would be nice to be able to say that, but it's almost always something for my building so it's usually more like, "I can't help you with that, try (other manager)"

1/1/2017 7:04:28 PM

One more day of freedom. One more day until I return to a cube full of estrogen. Too much estrogen.

1/2/2017 10:20:32 AM

just went back a page and reread the beer at work debate and I read this from neodata

Quote :

"If one person keeps buying the same beer every time because no one steps up it's everyone's fault. "

so you're it's YOUR fault that there is shitty free beer in your work fridge? don't you realize by not stepping up and selecting a more better beer you are promoting a poor work culture?


lol I think this was way funnier to me than it should have been

1/4/2017 11:57:25 PM

I be missing a word in thar^

1/5/2017 9:08:23 AM

Quote :

"She's an HR chick, you should be glad she isn't hand writing it (with bubble letters and/or hearts instead of dots on her i) and bringing it to you. "

haha true

Also I fucked up in my post, I meant I need the documents electronically. Not that it matters. TWW isn't real life.

1/5/2017 9:29:48 PM

8" of snow still on the ground and having to come to work today

1/9/2017 7:37:12 AM

last month a client asks if i would be interested in consulting on some of their projects at a facility in another state. sure, sounds great, it would potentially be a lot of new business.

we tentatively setup a meeting for yesterday (1/17)

1/4: send email to check if the meeting is confirmed so we can have the office make travel arrangements. no reply.
1/9: email again to check if the meeting is confirmed so we can make travel arrangements. no reply.
1/10: call twice. leave voicemail to say that i haven't received anything about the meeting and don't know if we are still on. no reply.
1/12: call & email again. no reply.
1/13: call & email. Tell them that we have other meetings booking up and that if they would like to meet Tuesday I need to know today so I can make arrangements.
Yesterday, the day we were supposed to meet: send email saying something like "yadda yadda yadda it sounds like you don't need us for this project, but if you have any future projects please feel free to reach out, we would be happy to help yadda yadda yadda"

Then they called back and were like: "oh, we had 15 people in the conference room waiting for you. we were wondering where you were"
"oh, well i apologize but we hadn't heard back about the meeting"
"we sent a meeting invite"
"was anyone here included on the invite"
"um... no"

wtf

[Edited on January 18, 2017 at 1:32 PM. Reason : .]

1/18/2017 1:31:48 PM

^I hate when clients drop the ball in a major way.... even when they fuck it up it still hurts your business

1/18/2017 2:00:43 PM

I had a coworker who seemed to be only happy when intimidating someone or making a joke at someone else's expense (some of the women would be crying after his shit)

he was very good at his job, or they wouldn't put up with his shit

anyways, I finally pulled one over on him, and made him look really stupid, everyone had a laugh, but he went THE FUCK OFF, I mean total meltdown

what little respect anyone did have for him went bye bye right then, he transferred shortly thereafter

if you cant take it, don't dish it out

1/18/2017 9:29:56 PM

My project manager can respond/correspond via e-mail rather than find an excuse to come down just about every other day. I don't even need to communicate with him that often and usually he just pops up unannounced.

[Edited on January 18, 2017 at 10:01 PM. Reason : ,]

1/18/2017 9:59:46 PM

get over yourself

[Edited on January 18, 2017 at 10:40 PM. Reason : ]

1/18/2017 10:37:28 PM

I wish people would be honest on conference calls and rather than say "Sorry, I was multitasking," just say "sorry, I wasn't paying attention."

2/3/2017 9:44:10 AM

my Mom had to fire one of her managerial employees (she's an HR director / exec) because the guy came in reeking of alcohol and slurring during a meeting. he denied it so they told him they would test him and he said "that's fine I'm golden" so they took him to get tested and he blew a .18 so they told him he was fired and drove him home. they had to call him back on Sunday to make sure he remembered being fired and that he would be charged with trespassing if he came back on the property. after all of that, he had still planned on coming in.

2/27/2017 9:58:32 AM

reply-all chain killed my phone

3/9/2017 2:04:18 PM

Some jackwagon put the conference call on hold

Twice

3/28/2017 3:39:34 PM

> meeting invite has livemeeting link
> gets mad that i join via livemeeting instead of going to their site

3/30/2017 8:52:16 AM

Woman near me puts on headphones and sings along. I go over and tell her she's singing out loud, and to please stop.

"Oh, I didn't realize I was doing that. I'm sorry."

5 minutes later, starts up again. I go back over and repeat the process.

This happens at least once a week.

3/30/2017 10:41:30 AM

Too. Many. People. Using. Distribution. Lists.

Just fucking reply directly. Believe me, all of North american fulfillment doesn't need an update about a trouble ticket.

3/30/2017 11:15:21 AM

Look, man, I don't know what's wrong with you, but whatever is causing you to have to loudly clear your throat every 30 fucking seconds is something you should probably get checked out. Either that, or you should slit your wrists so you'll stop annoying the piss out of everyone within 30 feet who has to hear your inconsiderateness. Srsly

3/31/2017 12:14:16 AM

whats the point of sending an email if you are going to call 2 minutes later to ask for the same thing? jesus christ people emails aren't instant messaging, give someone a few minutes to reply

4/6/2017 10:19:56 AM

^ Dude, fuck those people.

*Finishes reading email*

*Phone Rings* Hey Exiled, I just sent you an email, did you see?

4/6/2017 10:22:06 AM

I have to make calls like that for my boss all the time. If he doesn't get a read receipt after 10 minutes he just assumes they didnt get it.

4/6/2017 10:34:23 AM

Fuck your boss, and fuck his read receipts.

4/6/2017 10:44:38 AM

He doesnt get the concept that most email programs dont even display that someone asked for a read receipt. He is using outlook express on Windows XP so...

4/6/2017 10:51:58 AM

Quote :

"whats the point of sending an email if you are going to call 2 minutes later to ask for the same thing? jesus christ people emails aren't instant messaging, give someone a few minutes to reply "

my intern* will email me, then hit me up on instant messager "hey did you see that email?", and if I don't respond to that, will come to my office "Hey I did that thing in the email that I said I did"

All within a span of about 2 mins. He'll send the IM seconds after I receive the email.


*not an intern in the strict sense of the word. He's actually a temp contractor from India.

4/7/2017 8:23:37 AM

Quote :

"emails aren't instant messaging, give someone a few minutes days to reply"

4/7/2017 8:38:24 AM

last year i tried to set my email to only receive every hour like a bunch of productivity books recommend but it did not go over well at all with the people i reported to

4/7/2017 8:57:46 AM

this reminds me that I need to organize my email @ work.

4/9/2017 6:13:07 PM

I check my email maybe four times a day. Best thing I ever did when it comes to work email was set up a rule in Outlook to filter anything I'm just copied on to a separate folder.

4/9/2017 8:39:33 PM

I basically check every message as soon as I get it.
I'm sort of used to it though so it rarely slows me down.

4/10/2017 8:14:43 PM

Being self-employed, I work from home... so no complaints about co-workers, but goddamn I get tired of dealing with email luddites who don't understand accepted email communication.

Don't send me a fucking email with a blank subject.

Don't send me a fucking email with a scanned Word document asking me to add this content to their website.

I have clients who will type up a damn letter in Word, print it, take a picture, and email me. When I ask why they didn't email the Word doc, they reply that they didn't save it.

FUCK YOU.

4/11/2017 4:27:06 PM

^ha, reminds me of a guy that does the same thing as me for my company but in a different state. Whenever he gets an error he has a question about, he takes a screenshot, physically prints out the screenshot, scans it (which always comes out sideways), and then emails the scan

4/11/2017 5:20:15 PM

i tried to teach everyone here about how to print direct to PDF but now I just get emails with "hey can you put this in PDF for me"

4/11/2017 5:32:15 PM

^I use lmgtfy quite religiously at my company.

4/11/2017 7:39:46 PM

i started sending the same file back but i change the extension to .pdf

4/11/2017 8:15:37 PM

Someone heated up some fucking fish.

4/21/2017 8:02:07 AM

at 8am?

4/21/2017 8:02:52 AM

EARLIER, IN FACT! EARLIER! ASSHOLE!

UPDATE: IT WAS LOBSTER! ASSHOLE!

[Edited on April 21, 2017 at 8:15 AM. Reason : ///]

4/21/2017 8:15:18 AM

people who at age 40, still can't fucking pop popcorn, and burn that shit in the microwave

4/21/2017 9:43:40 AM

^ That's the worst! We have a lady who pops her popcorn on the same setting every single day, and it burns every time. You'd think she'd learn to set it on a lower time, but no.

In other news, I get told on a regular basis that I don't deserve my salary and that I get away with things I shouldn't, including "leaving early" when my schedule was officially altered to be that way, and I always work at least 40 hours. Also in this latest conversation was the point that I am a "golden child" who takes advantage of our boss. Everything I do is with permission from our boss.

4/21/2017 10:41:43 AM

someone made angel food cake for the office and put it in the break room

that person was apparently a smoker because the cake tastes like an ash tray and i didn't notice this until i took a giant bite. now i can't get the taste out of my mouth even after brushing my teeth and tongue

4/26/2017 10:05:23 AM

That's disgusting.

I have a client with a pretty bad injury and her daughter will drop off documents and medical records at the office. They always smell like an ashtray and it stinks up the entire office. I told the daughter that she can scan and email the documents from now on.

4/26/2017 10:16:06 AM

In a "get off my lawn" complaint, dude across from me is pissing me off with his constant burping. I'm talking every 5-10 minutes, audible, 1-2 second burps. At least give me an "excuse me" or something

4/27/2017 1:39:38 AM

A couple months ago they moved my team into a room adjacent to the one we were in. This does not completely solve the packing tape problem since the 2 site support guys also moved with us, but it mitigates it as they now tape up boxes at the other end of the room.

But that's not the complaint. My desk is a cube, with walls to the floor on three sides. One side is adjacent to another wall, which is made up of glass panes and metal dividers. When the A/C system comes on, after a few minutes, the metal divider inevitably starts rattling quietly but insistently. And, because of the solid cube wall between me and it, I have to get up, reach over the cube wall, and press on the divider to get it to stop rattling. Fucking annoying. Then it starts ratting again about 10 minutes later. After 2 or 3 rounds, cue RAGE.

[Edited on May 2, 2017 at 2:09 AM. Reason : l]

5/2/2017 2:08:50 AM

Quote :

"EARLIER, IN FACT! EARLIER! ASSHOLE! UPDATE: IT WAS LOBSTER! ASSHOLE!"

Who eats lobster for breakfast anyway?

Quote :

"someone made angel food cake for the office and put it in the break room that person was apparently a smoker because the cake tastes like an ash tray and i didn't notice this until i took a giant bite. now i can't get the taste out of my mouth even after brushing my teeth and tongue"

Did you learn nothing from the peanut m&ms incident of page 144? Ol' smokey seems to be taunting you.

5/2/2017 2:26:55 AM

Boss schedules an "Informal Catchup" meeting in outlook with notes for it. While I have way more things to do

5/4/2017 9:56:18 AM

your job is to do as your boss teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeells youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

5/4/2017 12:15:55 PM